Last month (April 27, 2019) my wife Mary and I – along with our grandchildren Jacob and Bella – witnessed the most significant event to occur in Somerset Massachusetts in the last hundred years: the great Brayton Point Cooling Towers implosion. At last, the two uber-ugly cooling towers that had so blighted our skyline came tumbling down. Just across the river from Somerset, in Fall River, some folks had paid big money to watch the event in style – sitting for a brunch at one of the several restaurants on the water......

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